Cognitive archaeology is a theoretical underpinning of archaeological research that is interested in the material expression of human ways of thinking about things, such as gender, class, status, kinship. This is a relatively new movement in archaeology, probably started as a reaction to the dry positivism of processual archaeology, and related to the post-processual movement. Archaeologists associated with cognitive archaeology include James Deetz and Robert Bednarik; but there are lots of others.
http://archaeology.about.com/od/cterms/g/cognitive.htm
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- Kim Vonder Haar
- User Interface Designer, Visual Interaction Designer, and Cognitive Scientist. I'm fascinated with natural and human-made patterns, cognition, cognitive archaeology and the process of creativity.